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Investors prepare for urgent action on nature

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... we need it to happen fast," Julia Leske, managing director and head of APAC institutional sales at ISS ESG commented. "Climate was the first cab off the rank, biodiversity and nature are following really fast and closely along." Regulations, taxonomies ...

Renewables set to dominate by 2040

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... global renewable energy by 2030, and that's exactly what Australia should be doing too," Merzian said. "The high-profile UN climate talks are coming in just over a month, and the prime minister has a chance to set his legacy and set Australia on a new ...

Investors lack clarity, rural solutions lack funding

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Mike Cannon-Brookes will seek to pair socially responsible entities with rural communities that are on the frontlines of climate change. Developed by the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR), the grant program is funded by Cannon-Brookes' ...

Farm to table reporting to increase ag investment certainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... in the past 20 years in real terms, but with agriculture contributing 10-35% of global emissions, its vulnerability to climate impacts as well as dependence on the sector means uniquely positioned to lead the charge on net zero. Andrew Tout head of agricultural ...

Investors call for multilateral financial architecture overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... supported by World Wide Fund for Nature and Global Optimism. In 2023, 69 members with US$8.4 trillion in AUM set intermediate climate targets in line with the Alliance's Target-Setting Protocol, up from 44 members with $7.1 trillion in AUM the previous ...

AASB publishes climate-related disclosure standards draft

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS) will first focus on climate-related financial reporting, under an exposure draft released by the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB). AASB has opened up a 120-day comment period on ASRS 1 ...

ASX50 lags on disclosure of political spending: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Tinto, Santos and Woodside - all companies with which ACCR regularly engages - against the Global Standard for Responsible Climate Lobbying, an investor-led framework for assessing Paris-alignment of corporate climate policy engagement. ACCR focused ...

NSW Anti-slavery commissioner raises alarm on ASX risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... Cockayne suggested that identifying and managing modern slavery risks shared common ground with the process of identifying climate risks, saying "just as we now understand that apparently harmless carbon emissions are, as they accumulate, wreaking havoc ...

Reducing risk and navigating a just transition

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... transition if careful planning and community engagement is not put in place," she said. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change projects an additional 1.47 billion jobs globally in sectors critical to climate stability, while the International ...

How to build a climate-resilient business: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Editorial note: This is the second in a six-part series of articles brought to you by Energetics Investing in climate mitigation is still a key priority, but investing in adaptation and resilience to the physical damages and disruption of climate change ...